"Your platform should be banned," Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R–Wash.) said to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew during her opening statement at a March 23 congressional hearing.
The attacks on TikTok were wide-ranging and bipartisan, with Rep. John Sarbanes (D–Md.) describing American children as "drowning" in TikTok's powerful algorithm, Rep. Buddy Carter (R–Ga.) accusing TikTok of engaging in "psychological warfare" on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party, and Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R–Texas) characterizing the platform as a weapon capable of "destroying our society from within."
